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State

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Gov. Jerry Brown signs 1, vetoes another bill on sexual assault evidence kits

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Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Sunday that mandates a statewide audit of all untested sexual assault evidence kits, commonly referred to as “rape kits.” Yet on the same day, he vetoed another bill that passed unanimously through the state Senate and Assembly, and would have mandated that rape kits be processed within 120 days.
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State

Wednesday, October 3, 2018
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Gov. Jerry Brown signs 3 bills to spur housing development, address homelessness

Gov. Jerry Brown recently passed three bills that tackle the housing shortage by increasing housing development near BART stations, addressing homelessness in the city of Berkeley and promoting student housing development throughout California.
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State

Wednesday, September 5, 2018
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BART may convert parking lots into housing under Assembly bill

BART may soon turn parking lots and vacant property into housing, pending Gov. Jerry Brown’s approval of a controversial bill.
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City

Monday, March 19, 2018
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East Bay resident faces charges for rape and murder, implicated by previously untested rape kit

An Antioch resident charged with raping and murdering a UCSF dental student in 2015 could have been detained earlier if the rape kit from a separate sexual assault case had been tested in a timely manner.
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Election 2016 Retrospective Issue, State

Monday, November 6, 2017
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California has been ‘capital of democratic resistance’ in Trump era, state legislators say

Only weeks after Donald Trump secured the electoral votes to place his conservative administration in the White House, California won a Democratic supermajority in both houses of its legislature.
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UC

Monday, March 7, 2016
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Berkeley Law students propose legislation to register students to vote

Two students at the UC Berkeley School of Law have helped draft state legislation that would automatically register select college students to vote.
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City

Sunday, April 26, 2015

City Council proposal suggests participatory budgeting for Berkeley

A recent proposal by Councilmember Kriss Worthington to the Berkeley City Council would, if passed, make Berkeley the eighth city in the U.S. to implement participatory budgeting.
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